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Book Cleveland s Lake View Cemetery

Download or read book Cleveland s Lake View Cemetery written by Marian J. Morton and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cleveland's Lake View Cemetery reveals the profound effects the cemetery and the City of Cleveland had on one another. Founded in 1869, this garden cemetery served as an escape and a model for Cleveland parks and suburbs, such as University Circle, Little Italy, East Cleveland, and Cleveland Heights. Lake View is home to cultural, economic, and political leaders and thousands of others from all classes, races, and religions. This rich diversity is manifested in the natural and man-made landscape, which features the President James Garfield Monument, the Wade Chapel, and the John D. Rockefeller obelisk.

Book The Lake View Cemetery

Download or read book The Lake View Cemetery written by Laura Taxel and published by University of Akron Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lake View Cemetery, founded in 1869, was modeled after the great garden cemeteries of Victorian England and France. Over 107,000 individuals are interred on the sprawling 285 acre expanse that is located four and one-half miles from Cleveland's Public Square. According to an 1870 Plain Dealer report, the cemetery was designed to combine all the attractive features that "nature and true art can produce" to harmonize nature's alphabet--"stone, earth, wood and water." The landscape was laid out with broad avenues and shady walks "near the fountains in view of many a rustic pile [edifice] and quiet grave and stately monument." The cemetery became the burial place for many of Cleveland's prominent citizens including James A. Garfield, John D. Rockefeller, and J. H. Wade. Cleveland photographer Barney Taxel has spent over a decade, during all seasons, exploring the stunning landmark. The culmination of the personal project is this collection of over two hundred of his creations that reveal the spirit and essence of the Lake View Cemetery. Not only are images of the famous Garfield monument and the Wade Chapel captured, but so are the artistic splendors of the landscape, stonework, and memorials. To provide context, the book also includes a history of the Lake View Cemetery based on archival research.

Book Graveyards of Chicago

Download or read book Graveyards of Chicago written by Matt Hucke and published by Lake Claremont Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cemeteries are in the metropolitan Chicago area.

Book The Wade Chapel

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  • Author : Wayne Thomas Bifano
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2022-02-18
  • ISBN : 9781734269413
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Wade Chapel written by Wayne Thomas Bifano and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion that Cleveland should have an elegant, restful, idyllic landscape in which to bury her citizens-regardless of race, creed or religion-was just an idea in 1869 when Jeptha Homer Wade (1811-1890) and two associates convened a group of Clevelanders who created Cleveland's Lake View Cemetery and elected Wade its first President. Three decades later, his grandson and namesake, Jeptha H. Wade II, commissioned the construction of Wade Chapel on the cemetery grounds as a memorial to his grandfather. This grandson, called Homer by family, hired Cleveland architects Hubbell and Benes to design the chapel. Cleveland stonemason Joseph Carabelli and his team of stonecutters, many of whom had immigrated from Campobasso, Italy to join Carabelli's firm, Lakeview Granite & Monumental Works, built the chapel's exterior. Wade chose internationally recognized designer Louis Comfort Tiffany and his hand-picked team of artists and artisans to decorate the chapel's interior.This book makes the Wade Chapel story available to us through the eyes of one guide, Wayne Bifano. Amazingly, at the 118 mark since the Chapel's dedication, this story has never before been composed in a book. Wayne Bifano, a dedicated steward of Wade Chapel and of Lake View Cemetery, has lovingly collected the jewels that make the Wade Chapel story.

Book Lakeview Cemetery of Burlington  Vermont

Download or read book Lakeview Cemetery of Burlington Vermont written by Thea Lewis and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Created in 1867, Lakeview is one of New England's most beautiful burial grounds, where locals used to gather to share picnic lunches and stories of their past. Meet a selfless philanthropist and her equally generous brother, John Purple Howard, the innkeeper's son who amassed a fortune in the hotel industry. From Civil War hero General George Stannard to lesser-known soldiers of the noted Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Regiment, veterans, paupers and benefactors populate this peaceful setting. Join Burlington native and historian Thea Lewis as she reveals the stories behind the fascinating and sometimes famous citizens of Lakeview Cemetery.

Book 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die

Download or read book 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die written by Loren Rhoads and published by Black Dog & Leventhal. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hauntingly beautiful travel guide to the world's most visited cemeteries, told through spectacular photography andtheir unique histories and residents. More than 3.5 million tourists flock to Paris's Pè Lachaise cemetery each year.They are lured there, and to many cemeteries around the world, by a combination of natural beauty, ornate tombstones and crypts, notable residents, vivid history, and even wildlife. Many also visit Mount Koya cemetery in Japan, where 10,000 lanterns illuminate the forest setting, or graveside in Oaxaca, Mexico to witness Day of the Dead fiestas. Savannah's Bonaventure Cemetery has gorgeous night tours of the Southern Gothic tombstones under moss-covered trees that is one of the most popular draws of the city. 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die features these unforgettable cemeteries, along with 196 more, seen in more than 300 photographs. In this bucket list of travel musts, author Loren Rhoads, who hosts the popular Cemetery Travel blog, details the history and features that make each destination unique. Throughout will be profiles of famous people buried there, striking memorials by noted artists, and unusual elements, such as the hand carved wood grave markers in the Merry Cemetery in Romania.

Book Historic Lakeview Cemetery of Cheyenne

Download or read book Historic Lakeview Cemetery of Cheyenne written by Starley Talbott Thompson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wyoming History Enshrined Created in 1871, Lakeview Cemetery serves as a repository of local and state history. Resting in the historic grounds are eleven of Wyoming's governors, including the first woman governor in the nation. Other hallowed, eternal residents include a wild west showman, the namesake of a military base, and a famed photographer of the west. Suffragists, Japanese railroad workers, and a young range war victim are buried here too. Authors Starley Talbott and Michael Kassel explore the rich past of the famous and not-so famous citizens of Lakeview Cemetery.

Book Past and Present of Syracuse and Onondaga County  New York

Download or read book Past and Present of Syracuse and Onondaga County New York written by William Martin Beauchamp and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Voice Over

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  • Author : Maria Stepanova
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2021-05-18
  • ISBN : 0231551681
  • Pages : 392 pages

Download or read book The Voice Over written by Maria Stepanova and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maria Stepanova is one of the most powerful and distinctive voices of Russia’s first post-Soviet literary generation. An award-winning poet and prose writer, she has also founded a major platform for independent journalism. Her verse blends formal mastery with a keen ear for the evolution of spoken language. As Russia’s political climate has turned increasingly repressive, Stepanova has responded with engaged writing that grapples with the persistence of violence in her country’s past and present. Some of her most remarkable recent work as a poet and essayist considers the conflict in Ukraine and the debasement of language that has always accompanied war. The Voice Over brings together two decades of Stepanova’s work, showcasing her range, virtuosity, and creative evolution. Stepanova’s poetic voice constantly sets out in search of new bodies to inhabit, taking established forms and styles and rendering them into something unexpected and strange. Recognizable patterns of ballads, elegies, and war songs are transposed into a new key, infused with foreign strains, and juxtaposed with unlikely neighbors. As an essayist, Stepanova engages deeply with writers who bore witness to devastation and dramatic social change, as seen in searching pieces on W. G. Sebald, Marina Tsvetaeva, and Susan Sontag. Including contributions from ten translators, The Voice Over shows English-speaking readers why Stepanova is one of Russia’s most acclaimed contemporary writers.

Book Cemetery Inscriptions  Wolfeboro  New Hampshire

Download or read book Cemetery Inscriptions Wolfeboro New Hampshire written by John S. Fipphen and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is arranged by cemetery and plot, and includes information on Lakeview, Pine Hill, Hersey, Wolfeboro Center, North Wolfeboro and South Wolfeboro Cemeteries. It includes an every-name index, and an appendix with maps. In addition to the cemeteries listed above, family graveyards have also been researched. Some of the names included are: Tibbetts, Perkins, Cotton, Rust, Jenness, Nute, Avery, Brown, Smith, Young, Haines, Dudley, and more. The maps of the cemeteries are very detailed and have plot locations marked out. The entries include plot number, row number, and/or section number.

Book Oakdale

    Book Details:
  • Author : Laura Fromwiller
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2014-08-04
  • ISBN : 1439646627
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book Oakdale written by Laura Fromwiller and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-04 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lapeer State Home has been a large part of the history of Lapeer County since its beginnings in 1895. After starting with three buildings and housing for 200 patients, the facility grew to encompass several hundred acres and, at its peak, accommodating over 4,000 patients. The history of the home includes a variety of memories from staff members, patients, and visitors who once walked its halls. Images of America: Oakdale: The Lapeer State Home provides a journey of this historic institution and attempts to bring some clarity to questions that remain about the home and its past.

Book Trace

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  • Author : Lauret Savoy
  • Publisher : Catapult
  • Release : 2015-11-01
  • ISBN : 1619026686
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Trace written by Lauret Savoy and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a New Preface by the Author Through personal journeys and historical inquiry, this PEN Literary Award finalist explores how America’s still unfolding history and ideas of “race” have marked its people and the land. Sand and stone are Earth’s fragmented memory. Each of us, too, is a landscape inscribed by memory and loss. One life–defining lesson Lauret Savoy learned as a young girl was this: the American land did not hate. As an educator and Earth historian, she has tracked the continent’s past from the relics of deep time; but the paths of ancestors toward her—paths of free and enslaved Africans, colonists from Europe, and peoples indigenous to this land—lie largely eroded and lost. A provocative and powerful mosaic that ranges across a continent and across time, from twisted terrain within the San Andreas Fault zone to a South Carolina plantation, from national parks to burial grounds, from “Indian Territory” and the U.S.–Mexico Border to the U.S. capital, Trace grapples with a searing national history to reveal the often unvoiced presence of the past. In distinctive and illuminating prose that is attentive to the rhythms of language and landscapes, she weaves together human stories of migration, silence, and displacement, as epic as the continent they survey, with uplifted mountains, braided streams, and eroded canyons. Gifted with this manifold vision, and graced by a scientific and lyrical diligence, she delves through fragmented histories—natural, personal, cultural—to find shadowy outlines of other stories of place in America. "Every landscape is an accumulation," reads one epigraph. "Life must be lived amidst that which was made before." Courageously and masterfully, Lauret Savoy does so in this beautiful book: she lives there, making sense of this land and its troubled past, reconciling what it means to inhabit terrains of memory—and to be one.

Book The Cemeteries of New Orleans

Download or read book The Cemeteries of New Orleans written by Peter B. Dedek and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2017-06-12 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Cemeteries of New Orleans, Peter B. Dedek reveals the origins and evolution of the Crescent City’s world-famous necropolises, exploring both their distinctive architecture and their cultural impact. Spanning centuries, this fascinating body of research takes readers from muddy fields of crude burial markers to extravagantly designed cities of the dead, illuminating a vital and vulnerable piece of New Orleans’s identity. Where many histories of New Orleans cemeteries have revolved around the famous people buried within them, Dedek focuses on the marble cutters, burial society members, journalists, and tourists who shaped these graveyards into internationally recognizable emblems of the city. In addition to these cultural actors, Dedek’s exploration of cemetery architecture reveals the impact of ancient and medieval grave traditions and styles, the city’s geography, and the arrival of trained European tomb designers, such as the French architect J. N. B. de Pouilly in 1833 and Italian artist and architect Pietro Gualdi in 1851. As Dedek shows, the nineteenth century was a particularly critical era in the city’s cemetery design. Notably, the cemeteries embodied traditional French and Spanish precedents, until the first garden cemetery—the Metairie Cemetery—was built on the site of an old racetrack in 1872. Like the older walled cemeteries, this iconic venue served as a lavish expression of fraternal and ethnic unity, a backdrop to exuberant social celebrations, and a destination for sightseeing excursions. During this time, cultural and religious practices, such as the celebration of All Saints’ Day and the practice of Voodoo rituals, flourished within the spatial bounds of these resting places. Over the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, however, episodes of neglect and destruction gave rise to groups that aimed to preserve the historic cemeteries of New Orleans—an endeavor, which, according to Dedek, is still wanting for resources and political will. Containing ample primary source material, abundant illustrations, appendices on both tomb styles and the history of each of the city’s eighteenth- and nineteenth-century cemeteries, The Cemeteries of New Orleans offers a comprehensive and intriguing resource on these fascinating historic sites.

Book Lake View Cemetery Seattle  Living Stories From The Dead

Download or read book Lake View Cemetery Seattle Living Stories From The Dead written by Marques Vickers and published by Marquis Publishing. This book was released on 2024-09-23 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seattle’s history is etched on forgotten tombstones. The living often ignores the narratives from the dead. Their muted voices reveal lessons, tragedies and triumphs of past lives once lived. Death has become the great equalizer. The former living elite rest beside the humblest. Grandiose monuments rate equally with stark remembrances of stillborn infants and those never attaining adulthood. Some of Lake View’s memorials honor legacies that once shaped the settlement of the Pacific Northwest. The fields of the forgotten represent a collective of brilliant accomplishments, stilled dreams and concluded legacies. Many of Seattle’s buried pioneers would live and depart life long before the city’s urban core would ever evolve. Primarily historians remember their contributions. Their influence is lost to acknowledgement in a labyrinth of contemporary lifestyle haste and distraction. Lake View Cemetery was incorporated on October 16, 1872, only seven years following the American Civil War. The property was acquired by ten of Seattle’ leading citizens and originally named the Seattle Masonic Cemetery. Its earliest burials were transferred from the current site of Denny Park, located north of downtown. Then called the Seattle Cemetery, the 223 interred were removed to accommodate future commercial development. Lake View was positioned atop the Capitol Hill district that offers serene and panoramic views of Lake Union, the Cascade Mountains, Lake Washington and the Olympic Mountains. During the 1890 Seattle expansion, the cemetery officially changed its name to Lake View. Today the terrain consisting of 40 acres accommodating over 40,000 graves including such international luminaries as actors Bruce and Brandon Lee, basketball legend Bill Russell, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and a diverse selection of prominent Seattle founders, personalities and dignitaries. Lake View features a diversity of remembrances ranging from diminutive etched grave slabs to casted bronze sculptures, replica chess pieces, and stately mausoleums. Many of the tombstone engravings have become barely legible with time and inclement weather. This edition concisely profiles several of the biographies from those left behind. Several monuments were selected based on their aesthetic and creative styling. Many commemoratives celebrate life while others express a profound sense of loss, sorrow and resignation. Lake View’s acknowledgement towards the great equalizer of death offers visitors an opportunity for reflection, perspective and solace. Hundreds pass through the park daily with varied motives to view the manicured grounds and displayed homage. This edition narrates some of the interred’s distinctive stories…

Book The Open Shelf

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  • Author : Cleveland Public Library
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1918
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Open Shelf written by Cleveland Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Organization and Dedication Ceremonies of Lake View Cemetery

Download or read book The Organization and Dedication Ceremonies of Lake View Cemetery written by Lake View Cemetery (Jamestown, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: